GENDER DIVERSITY’S BOARD STRUCTURES, OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCE IN INDONESIAN COMPANIES

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of gender diversity in the structure of the board and ownership in relation to company performance in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach - The study used a sample of companies whose stocks are actively traded on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The data used were panel data, namely, the data of cross section and time series from the period of 20011 to 2013. The sampling was simple random sampling, and the analytical techniques were panel data regression analysis. Findings – The results obtained by random effects regression models show that gender diversity on board structure does not affect the company's performance. Furthermore, the gender diversity on the board of directors (BOD) stuctures have significant negatively effect on the performance. Finally, this study also found that institutional ownership has significant negatively effect on the performance. Similarly, the managerial ownership, showed similar results, namely a significant negative on the performance